Re: Q: Will the new Lilo be included into potato?

[Michael Piefel <piefel@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]

> Seconded and thirded and fourthed!! The new LILO *must* be included in
> potato; Linux is unusable on about 25% of the systems I've tried
> without it. (You have to use a boot floppy or put your kernel under
> 1024 sectors, which is unacceptable for dual-boot systems).

I know it sounds weird, but for historic reasons (a soundcard that had to be
initialised by a DOS program) I always start Debian using loadlin. No need
for a bootmanager at all.

Greetings,
    Mike

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